Picard season 3 is very much a standout for this trend.

I've noticed this problem with a lot of media made in the past decade. I think Netflix's 'Ozark' is one of the worst examples. In almost every indoor scene the lights are off or very dim.

However, I got an oled screen this year, and it's helped a lot with dim scenes. I'm guessing hollywood is calibrating for expensive high contrast screens like oled and mini-led?

Because your tv black level or gamma are set wrong?

Your dying homie the light has dimmed in your eyes, ravaged by time.

Did you take your sunglasses off?

Probably need to tweak the settings on whatever display you're using, or potentially consider investing in a more-modern type of panel depending on what you have now.

Dark shows on decent/properly calibrated screens are my crack tho. Why must you deprive me.

I have to choose whether to have a light on or to not see the scenes.

have you ever adjusted your TV? sounds to me like it might just need some calibrating.

I can tolerate that, the one I can’t stand is Netflix shows where the ~dialogue is a mumbled quiet~ and random bits of foley try to blow my speakers out.

It makes it especially noticeable just how dodgy a lot of foley/sound editing work is, eg when someone throwing a punch and missing still goes WHOOSH at the same volume they use for gunshots. There’s YA shows now where even the camera panning gets a sound effect ffs

Your display likely has some sort of brightness/contrast setting.

If you're playing this movie on a computing device, the video player software likely also has adjustment settings at the software level. I use mpv on Linux to watch most video, and there, by default, 1 and 2 are contrast, 3 and 4 brightness, and 5 and 6 gamma.